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...picked up a flickering oil lamp, went out to the hall. Mrs. Somerville, at her knitting, could hear every word...
There was a shot. The lamp crashed to the floor. Mrs. Somerville rushed screaming to the dining room for another lamp, but it blew out before she could reach the hall. In the dark she heard the pounding of running feet on the gravel again. The Admiral was still breathing when she reached him, but he died before a doctor could be summoned. By his body lay a card: RECRUITER FOR THE BRITISH. THIS IS A WARNING! By the door was a crumpled British recruiting poster and another card. It read...
...Cincinnati Vice President Thomas A. Carothers of National Marking Machine Co. described his company's device which prints invisible laundry marks. The invisible ink used comes to view only under the light of a mercury vapor lamp...
...upon what this man exposed so well in his book," mourned Washington's Senator Bone, "that I postulated my stand for a strong, mandatory neutrality bill. The lamp of experience burns so brightly in his hands that we are convinced by his recitation of the record. That record can lead to only one conclusion, and that conclusion is what we tried to put into the Clark-Nye neutrality bills...
...echoes by hanging crimson velvet curtains between each of the columns. This shut out so much light that the Justices found they could not see to read. Elaborate chandeliers were dropped from the ceiling. They shone in the Justices' eyes. Finally a set of nine bronze desk lamps was installed on the bench itself. Greatly irked. Associate Justice Brandeis refused to accept one. plunked down in front of him a battered, goose-necked student lamp...